 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1834 - 502 pages
...other hand, has a fine harbour, and is in the southern extremity of the island, and is, says Tennent, " by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade now existing in the universe," but then it is without a river, and we have no evidence that it ever was a royal city. But again, Palisaemundus... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...the yellow strand is shaded by palm-trees that incline towards the sea, and bend their crowns above the water. The shore is gemmed with flowers, the hills...the resort of merchant ships at the earliest dawn of commerce1, and it is destined to be the 1 For more copious details of the I Vol. I. Pt. v. ch. ii.... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 700 pages
...the yellow strand is shaded by palm-trees that incline towards the sea, and bend their .crowns above the water. The shore is gemmed with flowers, the hills...the resort of merchant ships at the earliest dawn of commerce1, and it is destined to be the 1 For more copious details of the I Vol. I. Pt v. ch. ii. p.... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 704 pages
...Peak, with its summit enveloped in clouds. But the interest of the place is not confined to the charms of its scenery. Galle is by far the most venerable...commerce', and it is destined to be the centre to 1 For more copious details of the I Vol. I. Pt v. eh. ii. p. 505, 586, 588, early commerce of Galle,... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 708 pages
...Peak, with its summit enveloped in clouds. But the interest of the place is not confined to the charms of its scenery. Galle is by far the most venerable...the resort of merchant ships at the earliest dawn of commerce1, and it is destined to be the centre to 1 For more copious details of the I Vol. I. Pt v.... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1861 - 698 pages
...other hand, has a fine harbour, and is in the southern extremity of the island, and is, says Tennent, " by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade now existing in the universe," but then it is without a river, and we have no evidence that it ever was a royal city. But again, Palissemundus... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1861 - 584 pages
...other hand, has a fine harbour, and is in the southern extremity of the island, and is, says Tennent, " by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade now existing in tbe universe," but then it is without a river, and we have no evidence that it ever was a royal city.... | |
 | Alexander G. Findlay - Indian Ocean - 1866 - 1176 pages
...Whale, where there is a clear channel, having 8 and 9 fathoms water, rocky bottom. POINT DE GALLE. — Galle is by far the most venerable emporium of foreign...destined to be the centre to which will hereafter be conveyed all the rays of navigation intersecting the Indian Ocean, and connecting the races of Europe... | |
 | Francis Mason - Missionaries - 1870 - 512 pages
...hour's stay at Madras, we steamed down to Galle on the southern point of Ceylon, which Levant says, " is by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade...merchant ships at the earliest dawn of commerce." He goes on to show that it was the Tarshish of Solomon, and remarks : " Gallee was the Kalah at which... | |
 | Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - India - 1873 - 298 pages
...other hand, has a fine harbour, and is in the southern extremity of the island, and is, says Tennent, " by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade now existing in -the universe," but then it is without a river, and we have no evidence that it was ever a royal city. Of the name... | |
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The shore is gemmed with flowers, the hills behind are draped with forests of perennial green ; and far in the distance rises the zone of purple hills, above which towers the sacred mountain of Adam's Peak, with its summit enveloped in clouds. But the... 
